The plagiarism scandal is getting worse around Kamala Harris’ 2009 book, “Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor’s Plan to Make Us Safer” (that title had to be stolen from someone else, since no part of it applies to Kamala.) I reported yesterday that some substantial portions of it were found to have been copied from Wikipedia, which is not only plagiarism, it's lazy plagiarism.

Well, here are the latest updates:

It appears that in the same book, Harris cribs a story from the Rev. Martin Luther King and presents it as if it happened to herself.

https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2024/10/15/kamalas-plagiarism-scandal-just-got-worse-n4933359

Harris’ publisher accidentally CC'd Christopher Rufo, the journalist who broke the story, on an internal email revealing that they’re in damage control mode and see this as a “very sensitive topic.”

https://www.westernjournal.com/kamala-harris-publisher-damage-control-mode-accidentally-leaks-internal-message-plagiarism-scandal-report/

And the New York Times attempted to brush the story under the rug, first by claiming the stolen parts weren’t substantial enough to matter, thus establishing a new literary standard that “a little plagiarism” is okay. Then they tried the “Republicans pounce” trope and claimed that pointing out the plagiarism was racist. Then it turned out the plagiarism expert they quoted to exonerate Harris hadn’t even seen the entire book, just excerpts provided to him by the Times reporters.

https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2024/10/14/sad-trombone-the-new-york-times-is-not-handling-the-kamala-harris-plagiarism-news-well-at-all-n2180570

As I always say, “Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.” You may quote me on that.